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(.#516).- Meteor shower, Russia wants an international anti-asteroid system.
After the meteor shower, Russia wants an international anti-asteroid system.
February 16, 2013.
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METEORITES - Russia does not want a new meteor shower, after that which fell on the Urals on Friday 15 February. The Deputy Prime Minister in charge of defense and industry Dmitri Rogozin thus asked Friday evening for the creation of an international anti-asteroid system.
According to International Business Times, Dmitri Rogozin called on the great powers to work together on a system allowing to intercept objects falling from the sky, such as meteorites. "Neither we nor the Americans have such technology," he said. A remark echoing that of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who said that the meteor shower "proves that the whole planet is vulnerable".
Nearly a thousand injured
A meteorite exploded on Friday over the Russian metropolis of Chelyabinsk, projecting incandescent lightning in the sky and injuring nearly a thousand people, an extremely rare event which sowed panic in this region of the Urals.
This phenomenon, unprecedented by the magnitude of its human toll, was followed by the passage of an asteroid, closely watched by astronomers, which grazed the Earth on Friday without doing any damage. But several experts interviewed by AFP assured that the two events were not linked.
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Meteorite crash in Russia: Video of meteor…
"The number of injured is around 950," said Mikhail Yurevich, Governor of the Chelyabinsk region (south), quoted by Ria Novosti. A previous assessment reported more than 500 victims. According to the administration of this city of a million inhabitants, the death toll for this industrial city alone is 725 injured, including 159 children.
According to the governor, two-thirds of the injuries are minor, due to shards of glass. Only two people are in serious condition.
"I brainstorm to find in history any event in which so many people were injured by such an object ... It is very, very rare to have human victims", a commented Robert Massey, deputy director of the British Royal Astronomical Society.
F I N .
After the meteor shower, Russia wants an international anti-asteroid system.
February 16, 2013.
The HuffPost
Archives
ALAMY
METEORITES - Russia does not want a new meteor shower, after that which fell on the Urals on Friday 15 February. The Deputy Prime Minister in charge of defense and industry Dmitri Rogozin thus asked Friday evening for the creation of an international anti-asteroid system.
According to International Business Times, Dmitri Rogozin called on the great powers to work together on a system allowing to intercept objects falling from the sky, such as meteorites. "Neither we nor the Americans have such technology," he said. A remark echoing that of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who said that the meteor shower "proves that the whole planet is vulnerable".
Nearly a thousand injured
A meteorite exploded on Friday over the Russian metropolis of Chelyabinsk, projecting incandescent lightning in the sky and injuring nearly a thousand people, an extremely rare event which sowed panic in this region of the Urals.
This phenomenon, unprecedented by the magnitude of its human toll, was followed by the passage of an asteroid, closely watched by astronomers, which grazed the Earth on Friday without doing any damage. But several experts interviewed by AFP assured that the two events were not linked.
VIDEO :
Meteorite crash in Russia: Video of meteor…
"The number of injured is around 950," said Mikhail Yurevich, Governor of the Chelyabinsk region (south), quoted by Ria Novosti. A previous assessment reported more than 500 victims. According to the administration of this city of a million inhabitants, the death toll for this industrial city alone is 725 injured, including 159 children.
According to the governor, two-thirds of the injuries are minor, due to shards of glass. Only two people are in serious condition.
"I brainstorm to find in history any event in which so many people were injured by such an object ... It is very, very rare to have human victims", a commented Robert Massey, deputy director of the British Royal Astronomical Society.
F I N .
